Wings Over the Southern Seas: Exploring the Updated Guide to Seabirds of Southern Africa

Southern African Seabirds are a unique combination of species that are known for their important breeding grounds, long-distance migrations, and vulnerability to threats. Over the years they have become an important group of animals to study and protect. South Africa is home to a diverse range of seabirds, an amount estimated at about twenty alone…

Orphaned, with Living Parents by Vanessa Neo Mathope.

Many thousands of South African children are brought up by their grandmothers. This is one of the many manifestations of an unstable and distraught society, where the mother to child bond is too often broken, causing pain and a deep-seated sense of loss to both parties. Each Gogo-raised child’s story is different, but the general…

Storm – a Psychological Thriller by Stephanie Merritt

A beautiful French chateauJo Lawless is still grieving her husband when his oldest friends invite her to a weekend house-party in France. She’s always felt like an outsider in the group but she decides to go, hoping their shared loss will bring them closer together. A party full of secretsBut the weekend is disrupted by…

Pittacus Lore – Lorien Legacies

The Lorien legacies is truly a series that has grown from meh to something fun. First encounter on this series for me, was via the movie, I am Number Four, which I really enjoyed. I think this might be one of the very view movies I watched where I felt the film was way better…